About the only metric that matters - which is unavailable for the stat grinders to assess - is Damage Upon Detecting.

I play a lot of medium tanks (e.g. T20) where I do the medium / scout thing. A significant portion of the damage I do (1/3 to 1/2) ends up being DUD. <Pun intended> Quite often I will get 3k damage, 1k DUD.

As of now - the only part of that damage that goes into my stats (and yours) is the direct damage you did. Yet, direct damage, damage upon detecting, spots, etc. all get plugged into your Exp and Credit awards at the end of the game. I know that WG has the data - the question is, how do we get them to release it?

I would love, love to see this. Currently I track it via the WOT Performance Analyzer, which grabs that info from your battle results data files, but those files are separate from the local Dossier file and the server stats.